Jones v. West’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.3d 1296 · 1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Hodge v. West (1998), National Organization of Veterans' Advocates, Inc. v. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2001)
4 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Brown v. Gardner · Sullivan v. Finkelstein · Prenzler v. Derwinski · Travelstead v. Derwinski
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in order for a surviving spouse to be entitled to accrued benefits [owed the deceased veteran], the veteran must have had a claim pending at the time of his death for such benefits or else be entitled to them under an existing rating or decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“periodic monetary benefits . . . to which an individual was entitled at death under existing ratings or decisions or . . . based on evidence in the file at date of death . . . and due and unpaid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“benefits . . . to which [the veteran] was entitled at death under existing ratings or decisions or those based on evidence in the file at date of death . . . and due and unpaid . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Padgett v. Nicholson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.